Bharatiya Jana Sangh Founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Statue Blackened in Kolkata
New Delhi: A day after two statues of Russian Communist icon Vladimir Lenin were knocked down in Tripura, a statue of Syama Prasad Mookerjee was blackened in Kalighat on Wednesday. Syama Prasad Mookerjee was the founder of the Bharatiya Jana...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is now the richest man on Earth
New Delhi: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become the first person to amass a fortune surpassing $100 billion in Forbes magazines annual ranking of the worlds moguls. Forbes estimates Bezos wealth at $112 billion as of February 9, up from about...
Watch: Petrol bombs hurled at BJP office in Tamil Nadu
NEW DELHI: A day after a statue of Dravidian icon Periyar was vandalised in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, unidentified persons in the early hours of Wednesday hurled petrol bombs at the BJP office in Coimbatore. According to reports two petrol bombs...
Sexual assault case: Shimla police file FIR against veteran actor Jeetendra
Noted Bollywood star Jeetendra has been booked by Shimla Police on the charges of molestation following a complaint lodged against him by his cousin, accusing the actor of sexually assaulting her 47 years ago, when the actor and she stayed...
Subramanian Swamy drops Rs 72000-crore bombshell on Gautam Adani
New Delhi: Subramanian Swamy is at it again. This time around, Indian politics' enfant terrible has trained his guns on industrialist Gautam Adani, perceived by many Modi baiters as being close to the PM. "The biggest NPA (Non-Performing Assets) trapeze artiste in...
Vladimir Lenin’s statue pulled down in Tripura
Agartala: A statue of communist icon Lenin, has been pulled down by some people with an excavator machine at Belonia in South Tripura district, the police said today, with the CPI(M) holding BJP workers responsible for it. Days after the Left...
Shocking: Butcher cuts off son’s hand over cell phone addiction in Hyderabad
Representational Pic Hyderabad: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly hacked off his teenager son's hand following a tiff over the son's habit of watching films on his cell phone, the Hyderabad police said today. Qayyum Qureshi (45), a butcher by...
CBI gets Karti’s custody for 3 more days
New Delhi: The Patiala House court has extended Karti Chidambaram custody with the CBI by another three days. The CBI had asked for nine more days. Karti's next date with the court is on March 9, at 2 pm. The CBI...
Sri Sri’s 2nd appeal to AIMPLB to consider out-of-court settlement
New Delhi: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar today renewed his appeal to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board to consider an out-of-court settlement to the Ram Janmabhoomi row, saying he feared a "large-scale" communal flare up...
Emergency in Kandy not Colombo: BCCI
New Delhi: BCCI on the India vs Sri Lanka T20 to be held in Colombo. Sri Lanka declared a state of Emergency in the country after clashes between Muslims and Buddhists. The BCCI statement said, "There have been reports of...
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim clash
Colombo: Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency for 10 days to rein in the spread of communal violence, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after Buddhists and Muslims clashed in the Indian Ocean island's central district...
Biplab Kumar Deb set to be next Tripura CM
Agartala: Tripura BJP president and newly-elected MLA Biplab Kumar Deb was today unanimously elected leader of the BJP legislature party in the state, Union minister Nitin Gadkari announced. Deb, whose name was proposed by party MLA Sudip Roy Burman in...
SC turns down Karti plea against arrest by ED
New Delhi: The Supreme Court refuses to grant Karti Chidambaram interim protection from arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the alleged money laundering case related to INX Media. The SC seeks response from ED on Karti Chidambaram's fresh plea seeking protection...
Weird Act : Man strips naked on flight to watch porn, attacks stewardess
Kuala Lumpur: In one of the weirdest acts onboard an international flight, a 20 year old Bangladeshi man allegedly stripped naked and watched porn. Later, he also tried to molest a flight stewardess and also attacked her. The incident happened...
I Will Fill The Political Vaccum in Tamil Nadu Left by Jayalalithaa: Rajinikanth
New Delhi: After taking a political plunge last year, Tamil superstar Rajinikanth delivered his first speech on Monday. Speaking to students at the Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute in Chennai, Rajinikanth said that he is entering politics to fill...
Bombay HC Asks Maharashtra Govt To Decide On Facilities For Varsity Tribunals
The Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to take a decision on what facilities are to be provided to tribunals at universities in the state. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing a...
Maharashtra government ‘withheld’ medical reports in Judge Loya case, alleges a fresh plea in SC
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government “appears to have withheld” from the court certain documents that could “demolish” the official version that Judge BH Loya died of a heart attack, claimed an intervention application filed in the Supreme Court on Monday....
Munde Audio Clip: Devendra Fadnavis suggests probe by house panel
Mumbai: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today proposed a panel of senior members of the Maharashtra Legislature to probe the audio clip that allegedly featured the name of Leader of Opposition in the Council, Dhananjay Munde. Mr Fadnavis said in the Legislative...
Judge Loya death case: CPIL files intervention application, questions heart attack theory
New Delhi: The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), on Monday, filed an Intervention Application before the Supreme Court, demanding a Court monitored probe by a “high powered team” into CBI Special Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya’s death. The Application, filed through...
Judge Loya: Judges who have stood in the way have suffered, Dushyant Dave
New Delhi: Sparks flew in Court No. 1 of the Supreme Court, as Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave took on the lawyers appearing in the Judge Loya matter once again. Arguing before a Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM...
RTI stunner: There are 184 more Nirav Modis and Vijay Mallyas who fled the country
Mumbai: If one is scratching his or her head and pondering over multi-crore loot by bank fraudsters Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya and managing to flee the country, he or she is totally wrong. One would be perplexed to know...
